Winamp 3

[ninjamonkey]

I was wondering why Winamp 3 changes the color of the icon of all my mp3 files? they used to be white, but when i dled winamp 3, they all turned light blue. how do i get it back to normal?

[shn]

Originally posted by ninjamonkey@22 July 2003 - 22:33
I was wondering why Winamp 3 changes the color of the icon of all my mp3 files? they used to be white, but when i dled winamp 3, they all turned light blue. how do i get it back to normal?
disassociate some of the file types that winamp tries to associate itself with. Anytime you install winamp you should always use the custom install method so you can pick what files you want associated with winamp or else it will try and hog all the file types and change your icons to winamp ones. There should be an option to do that in the options menu of winamp. :)

[Dapadipz]

use winamp 2.95

winamp 3 will be gone soon and winamp 5 will be around

[apunkrockmonk]

yea, i dislike 3... the second i tried it i went back to 2.8

[Livy]

yeah, winamo 3 is a big disapointment, winamp 2 is sleek and fast, but winamp 3 looks great. but it aint worth it.

[ninjamonkey]

what so bad about winamp 3?
i had 2.8 before, but i like 3 more.

[Livy]

its to slow and resource hogging, dont get me wrong its a great program and very nice looking, but ts far to resource hoggin for my liking

[Cl1mh4224rd]

Originally posted by ninjamonkey@23 July 2003 - 19:00
what so bad about winamp 3?
i had 2.8 before, but i like 3 more.
Winamp3 was, in my opinion, just a demo for Nullsoft's Wasabi platform. It did the same thing as the 2.x series, but with, in all honesty, less useful features and higher resource requirements...

[Dapadipz]

i jus cant wait for WINAMP 5 :huh: :o :blink:

[Storm]

well winamp 3 is another xample of AOL fuckin with good programs :(

but it had alot of possebilitys, jus dint work well 4 us.......... we jus want a prog that plays our illegally dl music, an wanna b able 2 run a resourse huggin prog (KaZaA lite) @ the same time ;)

[balamm]

Resource hogging? You people must have a different version of winamp3 than I have. Check out the bitmap at this link and notice the processor and memory usage. With 43 running processes(it's a server after all). I don't see any problems with this program whatsoever. I'd be really interested in seeing similar benchmark proof though.

http://members.shaw.ca/telfaq/winamp3.htm

[Cl1mh4224rd]

Well, actually, most people seem to equate "loads slow" with "resource hog", which isn't entirely true. When I had Wa3 installed, it did load a fair bit slower than 2.81, and it, not surprisingly, required more RAM than 2.81, but not an absurd amount more (maybe a few MB).

Personally, I was really looking forward To Wa3, but... it was a disappointment. Nullsoft knows it, too; they took Wa3 back to alpha status (judging by the latest builds).

[balamm]

I think the trick to faster loading may be to deny it access to the web. I told it I didn't have an internet connection and it hasn't tried to connect since.
What the hell would I want a media player to connect to the web for anyway?
If I want to play a web based file, I leech it to hard drive and play it from there.

From what I understand, the subsequent releases don't support video either so they of course would have less to load. Winamp3 was my fallback video player before the BS player came along. Many files worked that wouldn't open with any other player.